Gardening with Strange's: Bloom-A-Thon Azalea
Come to our Short Pump location and take a look at our plant trials along W. Broad St. -- you can see new varieties for Fall, like the Bloom-A ...
Amaryllis are best antidote to winter blahs
The garden is put to bed. Well, sort of. Some depressingly large pillows of weeds are lounging around out there, but who cares? I’ve moved mentally indoors — and what’s commanding my attention now are the two A’s: an azalea and lots of amaryllis.
A friend gave me a potted azalea covered in shocking pink flowers about five years ago — and how beautiful it was. So I tried to get the darn thing to perform like that again. But could I? Nope. And then Larry Sherk, former horticulturist at Sheridan Nurseries, tapped me on the shoulder at some gardening event with this surprising advice:
“Just leave the pot outside long enough so that it gets hit by a couple of degrees of frost,” he said. “That will trigger your azalea to bloom.”
It works, folks. Amazingly. I ignore my amiable azalea (too busy doing other stuff) in summertime and just wield the watering can when I remember. But, after a few freezing nights, it’s now decked out in an eye-popping pink wardrobe again. So thanks, Larry.
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Some Azaleas are late bloomers this year
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